Tootfinder

Let’s not pretend this is all new. People have written funny/cryptic message on ammo for thousands of years, and the meanings are often inside jokes.
“But the British museum has sling shot, the actual projectiles used in slings and slingshots, that have funny little messages carved into them. Messages like ‘Catch!’ But, you know, the messages are written in Ancient Greek because they were carved 300 or so years before Jesus was born.”

Writing funny stuff on ammo is over 2000 years old
Do you have that buddy who scratches messages into his M4 rounds? Or maybe you're the sailor who Sharpies "This one's for you" onto JDAMs destined for a

Benchmark of stylistic variation in LLM-generated texts
Ji\v{r}\'i Mili\v{c}ka, Anna Marklov\'a, V\'aclav Cvr\v{c}ek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10179 https://…

Benchmark of stylistic variation in LLM-generated texts
This study investigates the register variation in texts written by humans and comparable texts produced by large language models (LLMs). Biber's multidimensional analysis (MDA) is applied to a sample of human-written texts and AI-created texts generated to be their counterparts to find the dimensions of variation in which LLMs differ most significantly and most systematically from humans. As textual material, a new LLM-generated corpus AI-Brown is used, which is comparable to BE-21 (a Brown fam…

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/openai-says-its-fixed-chatgpts-em-dash-problem/

OpenAI says it's fixed ChatGPT's em dash problem | TechCrunch
OpenAI says users can now personalize ChatGPT to stop using the em dash in its output.

Maybe I should mention how well it does.
It's caught some bugs before they're published, some fairly serious. But mostly its hallucinated many problems which aren't really there.
With all the code we write being reviewed by robots now, the code is written slightly differently to avoid it going on about issues that aren't really there.
People imagine that code is written for the computer to run, but really it's always been written for the programmers to understand. Now it's also written keeping in mind it'll be reviewed by an AI that has no context or understanding tasked with nit-picking to review.
Arguably this is ending up with better code. More unnecessary re-validation of everything mostly, but its also taking longer rather than being quicker.
Is that more efficient? 🤷 Sort of maybe?
3/3

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

Allie Vugrincic, "Ohio State University prohibits land acknowledgements under most circumstances"
https://www.wosu.org/politics-government/2025-09-08/ohio-state-university-prohibits-land-acknowledge…

Ohio State University prohibits land acknowledgements under most circumstances
A land acknowledgement is a verbal or written statement that recognizes that land was taken from Indigenous people. Ohio State's policy says they are considered statements "on behalf of an issue or cause" and they cannot be given by a university department or at university-sponsored events.

Reading:
Install LineageOS on FP5 | LineageOS Wiki
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/FP5/install/#
This is *very nicely* written. I'm a computer litterate, so i'm able to understand and follow, but still intimidating.
Normal people will neverswitch.

Not that this is getting this proposal written. If you see me on here the rest of the day, tell me to go and write....

Human-AI Collaboration Increases Efficiency in Regulatory Writing
Umut Eser, Yael Gozin, L. Jay Stallons, Ari Caroline, Martin Preusse, Brandon Rice, Scott Wright, Andrew Robertson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09738

Human-AI Collaboration Increases Efficiency in Regulatory Writing
Background: Investigational New Drug (IND) application preparation is time-intensive and expertise-dependent, slowing early clinical development. Objective: To evaluate whether a large language model (LLM) platform (AutoIND) can reduce first-draft composition time while maintaining document quality in regulatory submissions. Methods: Drafting times for IND nonclinical written summaries (eCTD modules 2.6.2, 2.6.4, 2.6.6) generated by AutoIND were directly recorded. For comparison, manual draftin…

Generative AI and the Transformation of Software Development Practices
Vivek Acharya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10819 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10819

Generative AI and the Transformation of Software Development Practices
Generative AI is reshaping how software is designed, written, and maintained. Advances in large language models (LLMs) are enabling new development styles - from chat-oriented programming and 'vibe coding' to agentic programming - that can accelerate productivity and broaden access. This paper examines how AI-assisted techniques are changing software engineering practice, and the related issues of trust, accountability, and shifting skills. We survey iterative chat-based development, multi-agen…

Every book I checked (>6) that I used in computer networking classes I taught going back 25 years, except for one was found in this list.
https://ecoevo.social/@hydropsyche/115322277085213039

"Countries that neglect #science become dependent on those that don’t. U.S. post-WWII dominance came from basic science investments (OSRD, NSF, NIH, DOE labs). After WWII ended, the UK slashed science investment which allowed the U.S. to commercialize the British inventions made during the war.
...[USSR failed] to convert science into sustained innovation...during the same time that U.…

Steve Blank No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off
Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What d…

OK I'm being a bit silly here, yes. Over the years I have written many custom install scripts for myself and others in the Vivaldi team. We have a few special requirements, e.g. we often run a bunch of copies of Vivaldi side by side. In addition to the public stable and snapshot releases we do multiple builds a day (often per commit) straight from our main branch, and developers make branch builds where they work on a feature or bug, that QA and others test. Even for the public builds, a…

Introducing CQ: A C-like API for Quantum Accelerated HPC
Oliver Thomson Brown, Mateusz Meller, James Richings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10854 https://arxi…

Introducing CQ: A C-like API for Quantum Accelerated HPC
In this paper we present CQ, a specification for a C-like API for quantum accelerated HPC, as well as CQ-SimBE, a reference implementation of CQ written in C99, and built on top of the statevector simulator QuEST. CQ focuses on enabling the incremental integration of quantum computing into classical HPC codes by supporting runtime offloading from languages such as C and Fortran. It provides a way of describing and offloading quantum computations which is compatible with strictly and strongly ty…

this soundtrack of the 1967 dudley moore flick "bedazzled" is not only great, it's amazing: the music is written and performed by dudley moore, so now i absolutely have to see this movie

High-Parallel FPGA-Based Discrete Simulated Bifurcation for Large-Scale Optimization
Fabrizio Orlando, Deborah Volpe, Giacomo Orlandi, Mariagrazia Graziano, Fabrizio Riente, Marco Vacca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12407

High-Parallel FPGA-Based Discrete Simulated Bifurcation for Large-Scale Optimization
Combinatorial Optimization (CO) problems exhibit exponential complexity, making their resolution challenging. Simulated Adiabatic Bifurcation (aSB) is a quantum-inspired algorithm to obtain approximate solutions to largescale CO problems written in the Ising form. It explores the solution space by emulating the adiabatic evolution of a network of Kerr-nonlinear parametric oscillators (KPOs), where each oscillator represents a variable in the problem. The optimal solution corresponds to the grou…

Statistical methods: Basic concepts, interpretations, and cautions
Sander Greenland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10168 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10168

Statistical methods: Basic concepts, interpretations, and cautions
The study of associations and their causal explanations is a central research activity whose methodology varies tremendously across fields. Even within specialized subfields, comparisons across textbooks and journals reveals that the basics are subject to considerable variation and controversy. This variation is often obscured by the singular viewpoints presented within textbooks and journal guidelines, which may be deceptively written as if the norms they adopt are unchallenged. Furthermore, h…

DIPLODOCUS II: Implementation of transport equations and test cases relevant to micro-scale physics of jetted astrophysical sources
Christopher N. Everett, Marc Klinger-Plaisier, Garret Cotter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12505

DIPLODOCUS II: Implementation of transport equations and test cases relevant to micro-scale physics of jetted astrophysical sources
DIPLODOCUS (Distribution-In-PLateaux methODOlogy for the CompUtation of transport equationS) is a novel framework being developed for the general transport of particle distribution functions through the seven dimensions of phase space, including forcing terms and interactions between particles. Following Paper I, which details the background analytic framework, this second paper provides an overview of the numerical implementation in the form of the code package Diplodocus.jl, written in Julia,…

Calculating Occultation Light Curves using Wavelets: Exponential Atmospheres and the Constraints of Static Stability
Leslie A. Young, Michael J. Person
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10145

Calculating Occultation Light Curves using Wavelets: Exponential Atmospheres and the Constraints of Static Stability
The signatures of waves are seen during many high-quality ground-based refractive stellar occultations by solar system atmospheres. We present a new forward-modeling technique for ground-based stellar occultations based on wavelet decomposition. If profiles of refractivity are written as the product of an exponential and a wavelet decomposition, then we can analytically write the profiles of the bending angles and the bending angle derivatives that are needed to calculate occultation light curv…

anyone know any ActivityPub compatible platforms written in PHP (preferrably minimal to no external libraries)
#fediverse

On the system of length sets of power monoids
Andreas Reinhart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10209 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10209

On the system of length sets of power monoids
The set $\mathcal{P}_{{\rm fin},0}(\mathbb{N}_0)$ of all finite subsets of $\mathbb{N}_0$ containing the zero element is a monoid with set addition as operation. If a set $A\in\mathcal{P}_{{\rm fin},0}(\mathbb{N}_0)$ can be written in the form $A=\sum_{i=1}^{\ell} A_i$ with $\ell\in\mathbb{N}_0$ and indecomposable elements $(A_i)_{i=1}^{\ell}$ of $\mathcal{P}_{{\rm fin},0}(\mathbb{N}_0)$, then $\ell$ is a factorization length of $A$ and $\mathsf{L}(A)\subseteq\mathbb{N}_0$ denotes the set of al…

Sequoia PGP exemplifies everything that's wrong about #RustLang (don't mean this against Sequoia). It features a bunch of different CLIs, which is a reasonable design.
If Sequoia were written in C, these CLIs would probably be using some shared library. If Sequoia were written in Python, they would probably use a shared Python package. However, it's written in Rust, so every CLI is a huge binary with its own copy of subset of shared Sequoia code, built separately:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12M 10-08 06:36 /usr/bin/gpg-sq
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4,7M 10-08 06:36 /usr/bin/gpgv-sq
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21M 10-08 08:38 /usr/bin/sq
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6,9M 10-08 08:38 /usr/bin/sqop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3,1M 10-08 08:32 /usr/bin/sqv

How Ancient Receipts Ushered in the Dawn of the Written Word ‹ Literary Hub #history

How Ancient Receipts Ushered in the Dawn of the Written Word
If the birth of history happens when people begin to write things down, then our own journey must start with the first written words in ancient Mesopotamia. It was with these first words that my ow…

​'Like a son': Ex-GOP lawmaker shares scathing Charlie Kirk essay written before shooting - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/charlie-kirk-2673988719/

Long Context Automated Essay Scoring with Language Models
Christopher Ormerod, Gitit Kehat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10417 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1041…

Long Context Automated Essay Scoring with Language Models
Transformer-based language models are architecturally constrained to process text of a fixed maximum length. Essays written by higher-grade students frequently exceed the maximum allowed length for many popular open-source models. A common approach to addressing this issue when using these models for Automated Essay Scoring is to truncate the input text. This raises serious validity concerns as it undermines the model's ability to fully capture and evaluate organizational elements of the scorin…

Andrej Karpathy unveils nanochat, a full-stack training and inference implementation of an LLM in a single, dependency-minimal codebase (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1977755427569111362

Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) on X
Excited to release new repo: nanochat! (it's among the most unhinged I've written). Unlike my earlier similar repo nanoGPT which only covered pretraining, nanochat is a minimal, from scratch, full-stack training/inference pipeline of a simple ChatGPT clone in a single,

How I feel today at work after some newby boss tries to tell me how things work around here.

"Futility is a novella written by Morgan Robertson, first published in 1898. It was revised as The Wreck of the #Titan in 1912. It features a fictional American ocean liner named Titan that sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean after striking an #iceberg. The Titan and its sinking are famous for their simila…

Stencil-Lifting: Hierarchical Recursive Lifting System for Extracting Summary of Stencil Kernel in Legacy Codes
Mingyi Li, Junmin Xiao, Siyan Chen, Hui Ma, Xi Chen, Peihua Bao, Liang Yuan, Guangming Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10236

Stencil-Lifting: Hierarchical Recursive Lifting System for Extracting Summary of Stencil Kernel in Legacy Codes
We introduce Stencil-Lifting, a novel system for automatically converting stencil kernels written in low-level languages in legacy code into semantically equivalent Domain-Specific Language (DSL) implementations. Targeting the efficiency bottlenecks of existing verified lifting systems, Stencil-Lifting achieves scalable stencil kernel abstraction through two key innovations. First, we propose a hierarchical recursive lifting theory that represents stencil kernels, structured as nested loops, us…

Temporary exception to this: Rail replacement bus service #Aaaarggh
So I'm hoping to clear some tabs on my phone instead. Watch out for some cool links...
1/n
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115366463584341325
Ruth_Mottram - Not that this is getting this proposal written. If you see me on here the rest of the day, tell me to go and write....

Sources: ESPN has removed its paywall on most written content, after requiring an ESPN subscription for previously free articles on its site starting in 2020 (Ben Koo/Awful Announcing)
https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/espn-paywall-written-content-done.html…

Rejoice! ESPN has eliminated its paywall on written content
In 2020, ESPN enacted a paywall for written articles on its website. ESPN has now removed that paywall with ESPN+ winding down

My daughter’s sketch of William Shakespeare.
#Art #MastoArt #Sketch

It’s time to check in on the Anthropic CEO (Dario Amodei), who claimed (6 months ago) that 90% of code will be written by AI in 3–6 months.
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-ai-90-percent-code-3-to-6-months-2025-3
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@… Also the dialog utility makes it really easy to add a bit of curses UI powered by a simple shell script, which is exactly what you are seeing here. That whole thing was just written in bash.

So if you get into my replies and are proud of not caring about your code and whether it is well-written and well thought out and that it's fine that LLMs write it for you... I will block you.
Literally your opinion is worth less than shit.

(From BlueSky post)
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
Source: https://

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Top acting, directing, cinematography, etc. Wow! Instant classic. See it in the theater if you can

#shitpost #shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Peter Schwierz, editor-in-chief of Electrive, has written an excellent article on yesterday’s ‘Automotive Dialogue’ event with the German Chancellor.
https://www.electrive.net/2025/10/09/warum-das-e-auto-auf-der-hauptstr…

Warum das E-Auto auf der Hauptstraße fährt – und doch alle über Verbrenner reden - electrive.net
Der Bundeskanzler hält 100 % Elektromobilität für technisch ausgeschlossen, die VDA-Präsidentin will Hybride nach China exportieren und die IG Metall den

StyleDecipher: Robust and Explainable Detection of LLM-Generated Texts with Stylistic Analysis
Siyuan Li, Aodu Wulianghai, Xi Lin, Guangyan Li, Xiang Chen, Jun Wu, Jianhua Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12608

StyleDecipher: Robust and Explainable Detection of LLM-Generated Texts with Stylistic Analysis
With the increasing integration of large language models (LLMs) into open-domain writing, detecting machine-generated text has become a critical task for ensuring content authenticity and trust. Existing approaches rely on statistical discrepancies or model-specific heuristics to distinguish between LLM-generated and human-written text. However, these methods struggle in real-world scenarios due to limited generalization, vulnerability to paraphrasing, and lack of explainability, particularly w…

10 years on, believe it or not, the Paris Agreement was signed.
This was our very short reaction at the time. Prescient, you might think.
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.
Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly. | Steady State Manchester https://…

Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly.
A lot has been written on the Paris international agreement on climate change.  To try and cut through all those words to the essential issues, here is our very brief analytic summary. The good Asp…

@… thanks!
Before I boost here (and share in Reddit): do the two sysctl values _not_ work when written to sysctl.conf(5)?
(Use of loader.conf(5) should be minimal.)

This year OOPSLA initiated a new Reserve Reviewer Policy to help keep reviewer loads manageable. We've written up the design principles, implementation details, and observations. We look forward to feedback and to continued experimentation by other venues!
https://blog.sigplan.org/2025/09/09/th

Show Your Title! A Scoping Review on Verbalization in Software Engineering with LLM-Assisted Screening
Gerg\H{o} Balogh, D\'avid K\'osz\'o, Homayoun Safarpour Motealegh Mahalegi, L\'aszl\'o T\'oth, Bence Szak\'acs, \'Aron B\'ucs\'u
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12294

Show Your Title! A Scoping Review on Verbalization in Software Engineering with LLM-Assisted Screening
Understanding how software developers think, make decisions, and behave remains a key challenge in software engineering (SE). Verbalization techniques (methods that capture spoken or written thought processes) offer a lightweight and accessible way to study these cognitive aspects. This paper presents a scoping review of research at the intersection of SE and psychology (PSY), focusing on the use of verbal data. To make large-scale interdisciplinary reviews feasible, we employed a large languag…

Free to Move: Reachability Types with Flow-Sensitive Effects for Safe Deallocation and Ownership Transfer
Haotian Deng, Siyuan He, Songlin Jia, Yuyan Bao, Tiark Rompf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08939

Free to Move: Reachability Types with Flow-Sensitive Effects for Safe Deallocation and Ownership Transfer
We present a flow-sensitive effect system for reachability types that supports explicit memory management, including Rust-style move semantics, in higher-order impure functional languages. Our system refines the existing reachability qualifier with polymorphic \emph{use} and \emph{kill} effects that record how references are read, written, transferred, and deallocated. The effect discipline tracks operations performed on each resource using qualifiers, enabling the type system to express owners…

Putting the finishing touches on my presentation at @… next weekend. "The #Fediverse: Embracing the Hacker Ethos for a Decentralized Social Media Experience". We may even have a special guest join us, @…

Can Clemson's Cade Klubnik join Jayden Daniels and Bo Nix as written-off QBs to become Round 1 draft picks?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/n…

Explaining the Reputational Risks of AI-Mediated Communication: Messages Labeled as AI-Assisted Are Viewed as Less Diagnostic of the Sender's Moral Character
Pranav Khadpe, Kimi Wenzel, George Loewenstein, Geoff Kaufman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09645

Explaining the Reputational Risks of AI-Mediated Communication: Messages Labeled as AI-Assisted Are Viewed as Less Diagnostic of the Sender's Moral Character
When someone sends us a thoughtful message, we naturally form judgments about their character. But what happens when that message carries a label indicating it was written with the help of AI? This paper investigates how the appearance of AI assistance affects our perceptions of message senders. Adding nuance to previous research, through two studies (N=399) featuring vignette scenarios, we find that AI-assistance labels don't necessarily make people view senders negatively. Rather, they dampen…

wow this person is fearless 👏 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/36405

Vertical text layout · Issue #36405 · mastodon/mastodon
Pitch Coexistence of horizontal or vertical posts mn-Mong posts are displayed vertically. WIP Actual: Expected: Vertically written UI I propose introducing a new vertical UI mode. This UI has a two...

Insight of the day from the functional safety panel discussion at #EuroRust25:
#Testing #engineers are more inclined to touch code written in

Are we over signage and packaging being written in the first person, or have AI chatbots locked that in?

Want to complain about #Rx requirements for a #COVID booster in the US? #uspol
You have until September 13 to submit a written comment to the

A $\sqrt{2}$-accelerated FISTA for composite strongly convex problems
Kansei Ushiyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09295 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09295

A $\sqrt{2}$-accelerated FISTA for composite strongly convex problems
In this paper, we propose a novel accelerated forward-backward splitting algorithm for minimizing convex composite functions, written as the sum of a smooth function and a (possibly) nonsmooth function. When the objective function is strongly convex, the method attains, to the best of our knowledge, the fastest known convergence rate, yielding a simultaneous linear and sublinear nonasymptotic bound. Our convergence analysis remains valid even when one of the two terms is only weakly convex (whi…

dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia

This particular excerpt sparks that thought for me precisely because its language is not as fiery as some she’s written; it’s just clear-eyed.

There are finally real USB3 (not Thunderbolt, not USB4 PCIe Tunneling) 10GbE NICs!
RTL8159 chipset-based, it uses the generic cdc_ncm driver on Linux.
Also seems to work on macOS and iOS.
TCP throughput between GPD Pocket 4 and MacBook Pro M1 seems a bit low at ~6.2 GBit/s, but that might also be due to the connected devices (both sides are using the same adapter).
I don't have another 10GBit/s device here right now, sorry.
Don't have a USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 de…

Heh yes. Pretty much this.
"Much more will be written about proposals to build massive undersea walls to hold up Antarctic ice sheets, drill bore holes in Greenland to pump out lubricating meltwater, or scatter glass beads over glaciers. As informed and erudite I'm sure this will be, I don't think it will be as effective as simply yelling "What the hell do you think you are doing?!”"
@… reads through the lines and interprets our recent #Geoengineering paper into plain english in this entertaining blogpost
https://www.technosphere.earth/new-report-concludes-polar-geoengineering-is-dangerous/

Beyond "Not Novel Enough": Enriching Scholarly Critique with LLM-Assisted Feedback
Osama Mohammed Afzal, Preslav Nakov, Tom Hope, Iryna Gurevych
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10795

Beyond "Not Novel Enough": Enriching Scholarly Critique with LLM-Assisted Feedback
Novelty assessment is a central yet understudied aspect of peer review, particularly in high volume fields like NLP where reviewer capacity is increasingly strained. We present a structured approach for automated novelty evaluation that models expert reviewer behavior through three stages: content extraction from submissions, retrieval and synthesis of related work, and structured comparison for evidence based assessment. Our method is informed by a large scale analysis of human written novelty…

Book Review: The Name on the Wall
On the front cover it states that this is a novel. This is in fact not the case. A novel is fiction: this is history. On page 5 it reads "I haven't written a "novel" ". Fairly recent history - mainly the second world war in France, and specifically about a young man who fought for the Resistance and died young.

Book Review: The Name on the Wall
On the front cover it states that this is a novel. This is in fact not the case. A novel is fiction: this is history. On page 5 it reads “I haven’t written a “novel” “…

I really enjoyed reading this well-written piece on the importance of the smaller industries that make up the Scottish economy. Something to be proud of!
https://charlottestpartners-9388945.hs-sites.com/view-from-the-stre…

Generating Energy-Efficient Code via Large-Language Models -- Where are we now?
Radu Apsan, Vincenzo Stoico, Michel Albonico, Rudra Dhar, Karthik Vaidhyanathan, Ivano Malavolta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10099

Generating Energy-Efficient Code via Large-Language Models -- Where are we now?
Context. The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to their widespread adoption in development pipelines. Goal. We empirically assess the energy efficiency of Python code generated by LLMs against human-written code and code developed by a Green software expert. Method. We test 363 solutions to 9 coding problems from the EvoEval benchmark using 6 widespread LLMs with 4 prompting techniques, and comparing them to human-developed solutions. Energy consumption is measured on three different…

Things I could do without when editing:
-Pretentiousness (luckily quite rare). Dude, we get it, you're really smart. But most of us are more impressed by good ideas than pompous prose.
-Passive voice. How have you made it this far as a writer while attributing action to the universe instead of people? Buildings don't just get built. Books don't just get written.
-Footnotes. You've written 10k words that three reviewers like. I bet you could read the style guide…

@… the claim was specific that it would replace human written code 🫣 (as I read it)

Business Insider deleted at least 34 essays written under 13 bylines; a memo by the EIC said they were removed over concerns about authors' identity or veracity (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/business-insider-del…

Top News Site Deletes Dozens of Articles After AI Scam Probe
Bogus “personal essays” were removed by Business Insider over fears they were written by con artists, possibly with the help of AI.

Project-Level C-to-Rust Translation via Synergistic Integration of Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models
Zhiqiang Yuan, Wenjun Mao, Zhuo Chen, Xiyue Shang, Chong Wang, Yiling Lou, Xin Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10956

Project-Level C-to-Rust Translation via Synergistic Integration of Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models
Translating C code into safe Rust is an effective way to ensure its memory safety. Compared to rule-based translation which produces Rust code that remains largely unsafe, LLM-based methods can generate more idiomatic and safer Rust code because LLMs have been trained on vast amount of human-written idiomatic code. Although promising, existing LLM-based methods still struggle with project-level C-to-Rust translation. They typically partition a C project into smaller units (\eg{} functions) base…

I have written a write up of the rebranding across the government.
Very much looking forward to the rationing app the Ministry of Plenty is sure to roll out so we can get food.
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/government-rebranding-continues/

Government Rebranding Continues
What’s in a name? Late Friday, after an Oval Office presentation to the press discussing the new secondary name "Department of War" for the former Department of Defense by the President and Secretary of War for Pete Hegseth, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced further secondary names for

Domain-Adapted Pre-trained Language Models for Implicit Information Extraction in Crash Narratives
Xixi Wang, Jordanka Kovaceva, Miguel Costa, Shuai Wang, Francisco Camara Pereira, Robert Thomson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09434

Domain-Adapted Pre-trained Language Models for Implicit Information Extraction in Crash Narratives
Free-text crash narratives recorded in real-world crash databases have been shown to play a significant role in improving traffic safety. However, large-scale analyses remain difficult to implement as there are no documented tools that can batch process the unstructured, non standardized text content written by various authors with diverse experience and attention to detail. In recent years, Transformer-based pre-trained language models (PLMs), such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from…

The Athletic partners with EA Games to provide written and short-form video content in the EA Sports app and be integrated into key EA Sports video games (Josh Sim/SportsPro)
https://www.sportspro.com/news/ea-sports-app-the-athletic-content-partner…

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 34613 nodes and 202167 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Researchers tested Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve AI agent on 67 mathematical problems and found that it discovered improved solutions to about 20 of them (Adam Zsolt Wagner/@azwagner_)
https://x.com/azwagner_/status/1986388872104702312

Adam Zsolt Wagner (@azwagner_) on X
Really happy to share our new paper on using AlphaEvolve for mathematical exploration at scale, written with Javier Gómez-Serrano, Terence Tao, and @GoogleDeepMind's Bogdan Georgiev. We tested it on 67 problems and documented all our successes and failures. 🧵

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 25417 nodes and 216738 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Wired and Business Insider remove articles by journalist Margaux Blanchard that appear to be AI-generated and feature people who do not seem to exist (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles
Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.

Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo plans to launch a newsletter written from a progressive perspective this month, and has hired several political reporters from Rolling Stone (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/07/2025/me…

Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo wants to take on Politico Playbook from the left
The publication is expanding its politics coverage to gear up for the midterm elections.

wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 120833 nodes and 598066 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigrap…

X-Teaming Evolutionary M2S: Automated Discovery of Multi-turn to Single-turn Jailbreak Templates
Hyunjun Kim, Junwoo Ha, Sangyoon Yu, Haon Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08729 …

X-Teaming Evolutionary M2S: Automated Discovery of Multi-turn to Single-turn Jailbreak Templates
Multi-turn-to-single-turn (M2S) compresses iterative red-teaming into one structured prompt, but prior work relied on a handful of manually written templates. We present X-Teaming Evolutionary M2S, an automated framework that discovers and optimizes M2S templates through language-model-guided evolution. The system pairs smart sampling from 12 sources with an LLM-as-judge inspired by StrongREJECT and records fully auditable logs. Maintaining selection pressure by setting the success threshold …

MoVoC: Morphology-Aware Subword Construction for Geez Script Languages
Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot, Dren Fazlija, Wolfgang Nejdl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08812 https://

MoVoC: Morphology-Aware Subword Construction for Geez Script Languages
Subword-based tokenization methods often fail to preserve morphological boundaries, a limitation especially pronounced in low-resource, morphologically complex languages such as those written in the Geez script. To address this, we present MoVoC (Morpheme-aware Subword Vocabulary Construction) and train MoVoC-Tok, a tokenizer that integrates supervised morphological analysis into the subword vocabulary. This hybrid segmentation approach combines morpheme-based and Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) token…